Programs/Content
Ready To Learn backs kids-care messenger Bright By Text
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The texting service reaches busy parents and caregivers with child-care information and resources.
How can public media heal a divided nation?
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You have to get out of your comfort zone to get people to talk.
System/Policy
Members approve changing PRNDI’s name to Public Media Journalists Association
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“What we want to do is better serve our members and to be able to grow our membership,” said Executive Director Terry Gildea.
Programs/Content
New NPR news VP looks to bolster investigative journalism, embrace working with stations
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One of Nancy Barnes’ top goals is to “expand the investigative-reporting firepower of NPR,” she told station newsroom leaders.
System/Policy
KCRW employees approve union membership
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The SAG-AFTRA bargaining unit will include more than 90 employees.
Fan’s collection of 8,000 cassettes preserves unique era in Princeton station’s history
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“Imagine if someone offered you a photo album that was filled with pictures of you and your family from the last 20 years, and you had never seen any of the pictures before.”
People
John Boland: ‘It is the local connections that matter most’
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Regardless of the role you play in a public media organization, “always remember that it is all about serving the needs of the people in your community,” says the retired CEO of San Francisco’s KQED.
People
Comings and goings: Two longtime programmers announce exits, WCBU reorganizes …
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WTTW’s Dan Soles and WILL’s David Thiel will leave their posts June 28.
System/Policy
KCRW employees plan to join SAG-AFTRA; KUOW unit approves first contract
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KCRW employees hope to vote this month on whether to join the union. Meanwhile, KUOW employees approved a contract after a year of negotiating.
Rewind: The Roots of Public Media
How France’s national broadcaster bolstered U.S. public radio in its formative years
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From the 1940s to the 1970s, dozens of U.S. public radio stations featured French cultural programming that “let us know that the French people like us and vice versa.”
Exit Interviews
Rob Gordon: ‘Understand that what worked well for others might not work for you’
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Develop relationships with local supporters to improve your station’s community service, says the retired Nashville Public Radio GM, because advice from public radio colleagues can take you only so far.
Tech
The Public Media Stack: imagining a better tech ecosystem for today’s pubmedia
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A former BBC executive hopes to steer public media organizations toward using digital platforms and tools that reinforce their ethics and values.